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Old 05-08-2026 | 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by bababouey
I think you’re reading way too much into his strategy. He does art of the deal style stuff where he says something insane and over the top to get a reaction. IMO, he desperately wants out of this and won’t resume hostilities unless Iran escalates in a big way. His antics are funny when he’s going after Chuck Schumer or Liz Warren, but in a hot war, against an actual opponent, with very little buy in from our allies, it’s tiring and not funny.
Thirty-five years plus of “peace dividends” have rendered most of our European allies pretty much irrelevant militarily.
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